Voting will continue on through March 2 and will include the state's first-ever Saturday voting on Feb. 25, she said.

All early voting in Dougherty County will take place 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. downtown at the Government Center at 222 Pine Ave. On Feb. 25, Nickerson said, her office will open up a second voting location at the Candy Room at 125 Pine Ave., located next to the Flint RiverQuarium.

"We'll utilize the Candy Room that day, and will be using our expanded office for all of the rest of the early voting," Nickerson said.

And while Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul and Rick Santorum remain the only viable candidates in contention for the GOP nomination for president, voters in Georgia will be able to choose from a field of nine candidates, Nickerson said.

"Even though they may have said publicly they're dropping out of the race, they don't come off the ballot until they notify the secretary of state," Nickerson said.

All of the precincts in Dougherty County will open on the March 6 primary day for voters to cast ballots at their normal polling precincts. No voting will be conducted March 5.

On Tuesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp officially placed President Barack Obama on the ballot for the November General Election. That followed a decision by an Atlanta administrative law judge last week that rejected an assertion by "birthers" that Obama legally couldn't be included on the ballot because he wasn't a natural-born American citizen.

Obama, who has no Democratic opposition in his run for a second four-year term of office, was born in Hawaii, according to that state's birth records.

Comments

Conservatives, we must emulate the Democrat voting base and Vote Early and Often. The article states that His Royal Majesty Barack Obama has no Democrat opposition but that assumes His fans will ignore His record. If people consider the damage He has done and what He intends to do yet if He gets re-elected, then there is plenty of Opposition.

The people voting republican need to know that even though there are 9 candidates on the ballot, there are only 4 candidates on the ballot that are actually running for president. Don't need to be wasting votes on someone who is no longer running.